Tokyo, 7 January, /AJMEDIA/
A domestic flight operated by budget carrier Jetstar Japan Co. made an emergency landing on Saturday morning at an international airport in central Japan following a bomb threat, according to the transport ministry and local police.
Five passengers sustained minor injuries while evacuating via the airplane’s inflatable slide following its arrival in Chubu Centrair International Airport in Aichi Prefecture at around 7:40 a.m. No one was hospitalized, according to the airline operator.
The plane, bound for Fukuoka from Narita airport near Tokyo, had 136 passengers and six crew members. The runway was temporarily closed off.
The threat was made at about 6:20 a.m. when the information center at Narita airport received a phone call from someone who said they had planted a bomb on the Jetstar plane, naming the specific flight, according to local police in Chiba Prefecture, where Narita airport is located.
The flight had started taxiing at Fukuoka airport at 6:21 a.m., Jetstar said.
A number of flights due to depart from Chubu airport were delayed or canceled following the incident.
Police cars and ambulances could be seen on the closed-off runway, while in the airport passengers on canceled flights as well as those from the threatened aircraft waited in long lines for refunds.
